Design for a Circular Platter
Johann Nepomuk
ca. 1810â25
Medium
metalwork
Classification
metalwork
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Accession Number
1911-28-343
About this artwork
Research in Progress
About the Artist
Johann Nepomuk · 1790–1870
Johann Nepomuk Muxel (1790-1870) was a German painter and etcher who devoted much of his career to documenting the celebrated art collection of Eugene de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, through meticulous reproductive prints. Born on April 20, 1790, in Munich and dying on May 17, 1870, also in Munich, Muxel's eighty-year life spanned a crucial period in European art history when reproductive pr...